Opal Scheer

Memorial services for L. OPAL PILGRIM SCHEER, 93, will be held at 2pm Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at the Bear Creek Community Church with Pastor Richard Gilbert officiating. Burial will take place prior to services at the Bear Creek Cemetery. Opal died May 24, 2011 at Community Hospital in Torrington, Wyoming and cremation has taken place. A memorial has been established to the Schriner’s Crippled Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Opal was born October 10, 1917 near Ogallala, Nebraska the daughter of William and Marie (Peterson) Pilgrim. Her family moved to Van Tassel, Wyoming when she was twelve and she attended elementary school and two years of high school at Louis School south of Van Tassel. She graduated high school in Torrington, Wyoming in 1935. She attended summer school at the University of Wyoming to receive her normal training and then taught school for six years in northern Goshen County during World War II. She married Louis Scheer on June 15, 1938 in Hot Springs, South Dakota. They lived in Lusk, Wyoming for two years and then Prairie Center, Wyoming from 1940 to 1960 before moving to Lander, Wyoming. They lived there eleven years and then moved to Bear Creek, Wyoming where she lived thirty-eight years. She celebrated her last birthday on 10/10/2010. Opal enjoyed traveling, playing cards, and following her grandchildren’s sports and activities. She was baptized in the Congregational Church which is now the Bear Creek Methodist Church. She was a 4-H leader, and a member of the Extension Club. Opal is survived by two sons Vernon Scheer and his wife Jolene of Kinnear, Wyoming and Doug Scheer and his wife Peggy of LaGrange, Wyoming; a daughter Myrna Carroll of Lingle, Wyoming; a sister JoAnn Roetzel of Custer, South Dakota; eight grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; and six great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Louis; and a brother Vernon Lester Pilgrim.

Opal Scheer

October 10, 1917 - May 24, 2011